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IAS officer suspended by Tamil Nadu government

The 1990 batch officer was suspended on the charge of producing a false community certificate to claim the scheduled caste quota during his civil services selection.

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A senior IAS officer, C Umashankar, has been suspended by the Tamil Nadu government on the charge of producing a false community certificate to claim the scheduled caste quota during his civil services selection.

A 1990 batch officer, Umashankar, who was director of small savings, was replaced by AC Mohandoss yesterday consequent to the suspension, official sources said.

The central government and the Union Public Service Commission had been informed about the suspension, they said.

Umashankar was a dalit Christian and not entitled to the scheduled caste quota, the sources said, adding that an inquiry had been ordered.

Umashankar, as the hairman of the Arasu Cable TV Corporation, set up by the state government in 2008 to run cable TV business, had recommended nationalisation of the Maran brothers owned Sumangali Cable Vision, alleging that the company was sabotaging the Arasu Cable TV network.

He is also facing charges of accumulating disproportionate wealth. But on a petition by him, the Madras high court had last month stayed the probe by the directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption.

He had also claimed that disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him to deny him promotion as the joint secretary to the union government after he submitted the proposal to nationalise Sumangali Cable Vision.

Umashankar had also exposed irregularities in the construction of cremation sheds in Madurai district when the AIADMK was in power. The DMK government, after assuming office in 1996, registered a case against AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa and the then local administration minister TM Selvaganpathy, now a DMK Rajya Sabha member. However, both were acquitted by the Madras high court.

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